Metal Archives Graphs

Explore global metal music production through interactive data visualizations

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Genre Analysis

Genres & Years (2024→)

Analyze genre trends from 2024 onwards — see what's emerging in the metal scene

Genres & Years (→2024)

Historical genre evolution from 1964 to 2024 — six decades of metal history

Genre Leaders

Discover which countries dominate each genre — per capita and absolute rankings

Country Genre Evolution

Watch how genres evolved within individual countries over time
Geographic Analysis

Regional Analysis

Explore metal production across 15 global regions — from Scandinavia to Southeast Asia

Region vs Region

Head-to-head regional comparisons — contrast metal cultures across the globe

Region vs Country

Compare individual countries against their regional context

Country Comparisons

Direct country vs country matchups — compare any two nations' metal output

Genre Per Capita

Compare genre production per million people — reveal which nations punch above their weight
Continental Rankings

Continent Comparison

Compare genre production across continents — per capita and total output

Continent Leaders

Top producing countries within each continent ranked by output

 80s 90s 00s

Decade Snapshots

Time travel through metal history — see how scenes looked each decade

Multi-Country Compare

Compare up to 6 countries simultaneously — flexible multi-way analysis
Project Info

Todo

  • Rest API Implementation to retrieve population data from the UN database.
  • Separate the current repository into three different ones: backend, population, frontend.
  • Documentation... the bane of every developer.
  • Polish the current backend processes. Still a bit clunky and fickle.
  • Mobile testing & refinements.
  • Cleanup the js part a bit more.
  • Migration to TypeScript?
  • More genres

Changelog

24th February 2026

Release of new version

  • New version online.
January 2026 - February 2026

Major UI overhaul

  • New dark theme design with metal aesthetic with the help of AI (Claude Code)
  • Custom SVG icons for all visualization cards
  • Improved responsive layout
  • Theme persistence across sessions
May 2025 - December 2025

Data & visualization updates

  • Redone the entire backend and aggregation of all datasets
  • Started with some initial and small data presentations
May 2025

New dataset received

  • Retrieved a new and improved dataset from Hellblazer.
  • new content has the data divided over years and countries.